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...CHA’s city funding and stopped health clinic closings for the next six months if the alliance failed to submit a plan to solicit community input. The order, which failed, was also supported by City Councillor Marjorie C. Decker, who is demanding “line-item accountability?? for the CHA’s expenditures.“When we’re cutting services, not only do we have a responsibility to know what we’re paying for, but we also should have some voice in choosing what we pay for in cutting...
...Center to discuss the difficulties of managing a nonprofit organization. The event, entitled “Tensions and Trade-Offs for Nonprofit Leaders,” was led by visiting Associate Professor of Public Policy Alnoor S. Ebrahim. Ebrahim, a professor at Virginia Tech, explored the relationship between external accountability??the obligation nonprofits feel to report data to their funders—and internal learning—the usefulness of data within the organization. Ebrahim, who drew on his recent research in Washington D.C. for this lecture, said he plans to expand the project to Boston later this...
...special interests. Rather, the demonstrated disdain of the CIA for the ideals of the United States, the rights of its citizens, and international law would appear to be a much more direct cause of cynicism. Even as the agency moralizes on its website, extolling “personal accountability?? and patriotism, it obstructs justice and oversteps its legal bounds in back rooms and black sites. What is disillusionment but the theft of an ideal...
...ought to do and be. Universities are curious institutions with varied purposes that they have neither clearly articulated nor adequately justified. Resulting public confusion, at a time when higher education has come to seem an indispensable social resource, has produced a torrent of demands for greater “accountability?? from colleges and universities...
...everything in science. If an experiment doesn’t appear in print, it might as well have never been performed. But the peer review process, even to researchers, can seem like a black box. Since the scientists who review the submitted papers review them anonymously, there is little accountability??these gatekeepers, some think, have far too much power over the progress of science. For these reasons, some in the scientific community have proposed switching to open-publication, online journals. In one model, used by the soon-to-launch online journal of the non-profit Public Library...